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  1. Brooooo, I'm clean. Why are you doing this to me, pal?
  2. Like I said...SCHEMING! :woozy_face: :confused: :av:
  3. mfw luckylager randed the mafia team as the same one from last game. That's epic lmao.
  4. Probably not lol, at least not for all those guys at once. That's, at minimum, two more years of 9.5M in cap-space for Detroit to take on. Way too hefty for just a 1st and prospect.
  5. Lol nah, I'm actually clean. Truthfully, I did spend too much time discussing our GM situation in another thread and kinda lost track of this. You better be clean too. I can't have you dupe me again hehe.
  6. How did Zfetch pull a fast one? Scum for sure lol.
  7. Any sweetener is going to be super heavy. Consider that Marc Staal (1x5.75M) was dumped with a 2nd for future considerations. We're asking them to take on multiple contracts with multiple years left over which is way heavier dump for Detroit to take on. They're better off just rolling with their own guys and letting them expire or trading them for assets if they can. We're obviously better off keeping our picks and making do with our situation.
  8. Deb is a homer so I can forgive that Dazzle is deluded and manipulative. Full stop. I'm out. Toxic bunch of people concerned with being right.
  9. And then what did I say? You know, about taking less money to play, and then the part about Benning's FAs not taking less money to play for his team?
  10. My original post actually quoted the above. Nice baiting...
  11. It helps when people properly contextualize my posts instead of isolating them, which is what you're very guilty of doing. Whatever helps to "win" an "argument"...
  12. Ok thanks. That was posted over a week ago and once again, I was either (a) responding to a user who was comparing Benning to Yzerman or (b) simply continuing a point albeit in a different post. I probably did not quote whatever I was referencing, so maybe that's where the confusion comes from. FWIW, I don't really think Yzerman and Benning are good comparisons for the reason that they were inheriting teams at different life cycle stages. For some reason, people (yourself included) keep bringing him up as point about why Benning needs more time but upon beginning their tenures, Yzerman had to continue build a core, wheras Benning had to tear it down. Better comparisons for Benning would be GMs that also had "nothing"(as many of you put) in the prospect cupboard+ ageing cores. So maybe, Feaster in CGY, Tambellini in EDM, Shero in NJ. If there's another example you can think of, by all means, add them to the list.
  13. Aladeen just wanted to CFD me, he wasn't pushing for my yeet lol.
  14. Deb, do you mind quoting me where I used or implied Tampa again? I'm honestly not sure how you're concluding this lol.
  15. What else can I read from those reports. There either (a) true and did in fact happen, (b) false because its posturing on some level. At no point have I implied that deals are easy to make. There are a lot of factors (city, state/provincial taxes, state of team, money, term, spouse preference, kids, etc) but my point is that a GM isn't held to gunpoint when making these deals. He can remove himself from a bidding war if the price is too high or importantly, the price may jeopardize the future of his team. He can explore other options. In fact, Benning just did that this off-season with getting Schmidt when he struck out on Barrie (thankfully). Following hockey and looking at the deals that other GMs make is my point of reference. And no, those GMs aren't perfect or infallible but my main argument is that I've noticed a trend with Benning and free-agency. You don't (or shouldn't) just double-down because the options are scarce. That's irresponsible, IMO.
  16. I'm assuming this is addressed to me? (1) I think the team has good pieces. This is something that I have never disputed. (2) I'm honestly not sure how the future will turn out. We project to have enough cap-space to retain Pettersson/Hughes (which are the biggest priorities) but we probably won't be able to bring back Pearson/Edler and that's another big cut to the depth that could have been avoided had we not committed big money to bottom-six players. We might yet run into problems if Demko has a great season because that might lead to him getting a contract that costs 3-4M The one positive thing is that we aren't projected to lose an important piece in the expansion draft. Other than that, I can see us taking a step back that may last two seasons, maybe even three. That's not a good thing for a team that just missed the playoffs in four of its last five seasons. (3) I'm not sure how to answer these? We have a younger core which is "good" but if we miss the playoffs because of the guttting made to our team due to cap problems, we're back at where we were in 2014 - out of the playoffs.
  17. I forgot to add the most important part: I don't think that other teams saw Myers as a 6x6M defenceman either. Sometimes, yes, you overpay because that's the price to pay in FA, I just don't believe that Myers was one of those guys in this instance. Somebody like Artemi Panarin on the other hand, I could see a bidding war happening on.
  18. I think it's a matter of reading in between the lines. I'll give an example from this off-season. VAN signs Holtby, word comes out that he took less than what was offered from EDM. A day later, EDM signs Barrie, word comes out that he took less than what was offered from VAN or (other teams). Did both players really leave more money on the table or did the teams just leak that info to make it seem like they did a good job to appease fans? This is rhetorical because we can't say for certain. Anyways, if you really believe that Myers is worth 6x6M, all power to you. I don't think he is and for the role he plays (middle-pairing/bottom-pairing, I'm not sure but he played a lot with Fantenburg who I'd say is a bottom-pairing guy), you could probably find a comparable player for less term and dollars.
  19. Eriksson was in a crop with Okposo, Ladd, Lucic, Backes, all legit top 6 forwards. It's kind of funny how they all fell off a cliff together. Myers was with...maybe Stralman? Was Shattenkirk bought out at that point? Idk.
  20. I saw that report too. Nobody was giving him 7-8M dollars and only Vancouver was willing to give 6M
  21. Poor free-agent defencemen crop then. You don't overpay just because there's no other options.
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